There is nothing like the fun of having brothers,if there is no rivalry....There is nothing like the fun of summer rains,if there is no mud.There is nothing like the fun of gambling,if there is no loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder s...hower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if only... that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If [government] would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and t...he low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We're not a big party, son. We're just a handful of people sent out to mark the trail and prepare the ground for those who are gon...na come after us. By next summer they'll be 100 families on the move. And they're countin' on us to have a crop ready for them. And if we don't, they'll starve, sure as shootin'. That's why we gotta reach that valley before the winter rains come. We been prayin' that we'd be showed the way. It might just be that you boys are the answer to our prayers.... Leading our wagons to the San Juan, to a valley that's been reserved for us by the Lord, been reserved for His people. So we can plow it and seed it and make it fruitful in His eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs i...n the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »